The Patients Rights as an Important Issue in the Process of Civic Emancipation in the Czech Republic
1999
Abstract
The article reviews the history of right to health care in the post-war period in Czechoslovakia and describes in detail the transformation steps in the Czech health care system after 1990 Czech Republic with respect to the patients rights. The aims ofhealth care system transformation process and its outcomes and dilemmas are mentioned, including some critical points and disputes on patients co-payments.
Explicitly declared health care entitlements are confronted with the reality, the crucial problem Being the disparity between the formally declared guarantee of health care free of charge and scarce resources. The issue of patients rights is considered in the broader social and political context of emerging democracy.